Old floors, newer houses: a screed for each Marlow home
Census 2021 counted 14,641 people in the Marlow built-up area, living in a fairly even spread of detached, semi-detached and terraced houses. Before anything else, find out when yours was built, because that shapes what the floor needs.
Many of Marlow's pre-1919 houses have floors with no insulation, and some were laid without a damp proof membrane. Put new tiles or boards straight on top and the room stays cold while the damp comes through. A dig-out and relay sorts it properly: the old floor comes up, and insulation, a membrane and new screed go down in its place. Each room is rebuilt in turn, and for that kind of work sand and cement mixed and laid by hand is the natural material.
Plenty of the town is younger, with 30% of homes dating from 1973 to 1999. When any Marlow house gains an extension or has walls knocked through for a larger kitchen, that broad new floor is well suited to pumped liquid screed for Marlow extensions, which levels out in a single visit.
Heating going in under the new room? Then the depth over the pipes and the way the system is first warmed deserve as much thought as the screed, and our screed over underfloor heating page covers both.
Spot CA-C25-F5, or a similar code, on a Marlow specification and you are looking at calcium sulphate; drying and sanding for that material are explained on the calcium sulphate flow screed page. And if the floor is solid, only bumpy, a pour of levelling compound could be enough before the new boards or tiles.
Homes in Marlow at a glance
The most common home in Marlow is a terraced house (29%), ahead of detached houses at 28%. The largest share of its housing, 38%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 30% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Marlow | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 28% |
| Semi-detached houses | 24% |
| Terraced houses | 29% |
| Flats | 18% |
| Built before 1919 | 14% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 38% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 30% |
| Built since 2000 | 9% |
House types from Census 2021 (table TS044); building age from the Valuation Office Agency council tax stock of properties, 31 March 2026 (table CTSOP 4.1). Figures cover the Marlow built-up area (E63004834).
Screeding services in Marlow
- Liquid ScreedA Marlow drive close to the door keeps a liquid screed hose run short: flat, self-levelling floors, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedMarlow's pre-1919 houses often have uninsulated floors with no membrane that need digging out and relaying with sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for a Marlow semi's new kitchen or a retrofit in an older floor, with correct pipe cover and a heat-up plan.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedCA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 anhydrite flow screed for Marlow apartments, extensions and new plots, sanded and moisture tested to spec.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling to SR1 for back to frame refits like Eclipse at Globe Business Park and uneven Marlow home floors, before LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedDamp checks first on Marlow's pre-1919 floors, then a thin latex screed over plywood, tiles or concrete readies them for vinyl.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Globe Business Park refits in Marlow: high spots, adhesive and paint removed with dust extraction.
We also offer fibre reinforced screed, quick drying screed, high strength screed, bonded screed, floor preparation, screed repairs, concrete floor repair, screed pumping, insulation & membranes, commercial screeding and residential screeding in Marlow.
Planning a pour in Marlow and at Globe Business Park
Book the screed around the rest of the build, not the other way about. Have the windows and doors in, the wet plaster finished and any heating pipes pressure tested, so the room is weathertight before the pour date comes round. Once poured, the floor needs time to dry before its finish, so set the flooring date only after the screed date is fixed. Hurrying that stage is a common cause of new finishes lifting or cracking.
For pumping, we need parking for the machines somewhere the hose can reach your door from. Narrow lanes, parking controls or a long garden path are all worth mentioning when you ask for a price, so the set-up can be planned to suit.
Beside the A404, Globe Business Park holds offices and warehouses, among them Atlas House on Third Avenue and Jubilee House. Eclipse, also on the park, has been through a back to frame refurbishment, and work on that scale routinely involves floor levelling and new screeds before raised floors or finishes are fitted. That kind of job, from a single office floor to a whole building, falls under our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Marlow floors
Sand and cement £18 to £25 per m², liquid £24 to £31 per m², supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026). MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your floor screed in Marlow
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Reaching Marlow
On the map, Marlow sits west-north-west of Slough, about 6.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SL7 and SL6), next to High Wycombe (4.1 miles), Maidenhead (4.2 miles), Henley-on-Thames (6 miles) and Beaconsfield (6.3 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Marlow include Winter Hill.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.